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Yesterday our portfolio company Disqusannounced a bunch of numbers
including the fact that they had raised $10mm to fund their rapid
growth. The AVC community is powered by Disqus and we are big
fans of the company here. So I'm pretty sure many of you already
saw the news and are happy for the Company. For those that did
not see the news, click on that link above. For those who would
rather get a brief summary, here's what they announced:

- Disqus is four years old this week

- Disqus communities are viewed each month by almost 500mm users
worldwide.

- Over 750,000 blog communities have adopted Disqus

- 35mm commenters actively participate in these communities

- The company grew 5x across all its core metrics in the past
year

- 75% of blogs that use a third party comment system use Disqus

- All of this was achieved by just 16 people, but they hope to
increase that number in the coming months

If you are interested in working for a rapidly growing category
leader, here is their jobs page.

In other news, Disqus released some new features, one of which I
discovered in the comments to yesterday's post. If you mention
other people in a Disqus comment by typing @ then his or her
Disqus name, mentioned people will be notified via email or
Twitter. I saw a number of people using this yesterday. Let's do
this as much as we can around here. It will make the disqussions
even more lively.